In less than a month, two “ICE watchers” have been shot and killed by immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis. On January 24, a federal agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse. His death follows that of Renée Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, who was killed on January 7.
Both Pretti and Good participated in “ICE watching,” an anti-immigration-enforcement tactic that can involve tracking ICE agents, filming arrests, and alerting other activists of enforcement actions. While participants frame ICE watching as a “community safety” measure, these tactics often place untrained civilians in direct, high-stakes confrontation with armed federal agents.
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Minnesota Reformer is part of States Newsroom. States Newsroom was fiscally sponsored by the Hopewell Fund, managed by Arabella Advisors—the same progressive dark-money network that fiscally sponsors States at the Core, which helped implement the ICE watch model used in Minneapolis.
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Although Brom was given three consecutive life sentences in 1989, he has been paroled after serving only 36 years.